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Originally posted by Conclamo Ludus
The thing that bothers me about some of the Iraq Occupation criticism is that it is still a working process. People are running around pointing their fingers saying we've failed, or the president really screwed this one up, blah blah blah. Meanwhile its an ongoing process. Its not going well, but it isn't a failure. Not yet. Calling it a failure at this point is dooming it to failure. We need to think of how it could be better.
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I'm not sure its even going so badly. You hear from the men there and it sounds like its going pretty well. The press for the most part isn't covering the accomplishments, only what blew up and who was killed. Imagine listening to a football game where they only reported what your team did wrong, even if you were winning you would never know by listening. Some of it is media-bias, but I think some of it is that the reporters don't want to leave the safety of Al-Rashid hotel. They are still in Saddam Iraq mode, where you stay there and read press releases.